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This last volume in Pierre Teilhard's collected works contains two previously unavailable essays of key importance: "The Heart of Matter," a spiritual autobiography written in 1950, toward the end of his life, and "The Christic," written a month before he died, a profession of faith that develops further the views set forth in The Divine Milieu. Together they sum up his unique vision, at which he arrived by the separate yet converging roads of science and religion. These two...
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A major new Teilhard work on the nature and spiritual significance of man's evolution THE APPEARANCE OF MAN by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The unique vision of Teilhard's earlier books is enriched and enlarged in this work, which complements and confirms THE PHENOMENON OF MAN. Here is a collection of reports and essays on the origin of man, considering the problem as it presents itself in the light of recent paleontological discoveries including those in which Teilhard himself participated. The...
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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This book is a collection of essays by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, gathered by the editor for the purpose of presenting a panoramic view of Teilhard's thought. It is divided into three sections: 1. Phenomenology - Teilhard examines an evolution that is "convergent" by nature. This evolution which was a convergence of atoms, molecules and cells to create biological life, is now a convergence of "human molecules" as seen in globalization to form an "ultra-humanity."...
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Released in October 1985, on the eve of the United Nations International Year of Peace, this statement of the Universal House of Justice , the international governing council of the Bahá'í Faith and its international community, was addressed "To the Peoples of the World." Presented to over 160 heads of state and government over the past 10 years, it outlines the major prerequisites for, as well as the obstacles working against, the establishment of world peace. "The Great...
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